Chennai Mathematical Institute

Conferences


Dr. F.C. Kohli Centre of Excellence

Perspectives in Mathematical Sciences

January 10–February 4, 2022

Wednesday, 12 January 2022, 19:30 IST

Sarah Shandera, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (IGC), Pennsylvania State University

Title Cosmology in the 2020s (Video Recording)

Abstract

I will give an overview of our current understanding of the dynamics and matter content of the universe. I will highlight current puzzles and open questions, and give an outlook toward some of the new data the next few years will bring.

About the speaker

Sarah Shandera photo Sarah Shandera received her PhD in physics in 2006 from Cornell University. She held postdoctoral positions at Columbia University's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics and at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics before joining the faculty at The Pennsylvania State University in 2011. She is currently the Director of Penn State's Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos.